Will Work for Nuts

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This week sees the end of the entertaining wildlife series that gives Britain’s animals the chance to flaunt their natural abilities. In tonight’s season finale, the boys persuade a group of squirrels to appear in a range of famous portraits; while a raven performs some street magic to an amazed crowd.

The first challenge of tonight’s Will Work for Nuts sees the intrepid animal experts attempt to take some ‘celebrity portraits’ of squirrels. With the help of some dollops of peanut butter, Matt hopes to persuade these wild animals to poke their heads through holes in a number of prints. Among the portraits featured are Frans Hals’s baroque masterpiece ‘The Laughing Cavalier’, along with slightly less highbrow portraits of Rambo and Neil Armstrong. Though the task is not easy, Matt achieves some impressive results.

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This entertaining wildlife series gives Britain’s animals the chance to flaunt their natural abilities as three experts set them a series of inventive challenges. In tonight’s show, the boys head into the woods for a contest to capture on film one of Britain’s shyest animals – the roe deer. Their varied approaches meet with mixed success.

This week’s main challenge sees Matt, James and Lloyd attempt to film some wild roe deer –Britain’s only woodland deer. These animals are incredibly shy and rely on sharp senses of smell and hearing to detect the approach of any predator. Add to this factor the limited visibility in the woods and the boys have a very tough task on their hands.

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This entertaining wildlife series gives Britain’s animals the chance to flaunt their natural abilities as three experts set them a series of inventive challenges. In tonight’s show, the team sets out to take a close-up portrait of a blue tit with a mobile phone camera; Matt and James test Lloyd’s claim that his eagle can tell when people are lying and Lloyd takes his peregrine falcons base-jumping.

The first challenge this week sees the boys set out on a ‘blue tit safari’. While this may sound like a walk in the park, Lloyd explains that it is not easy. “A blue tit is just like any other wild animal. When you are trying to get this close... it may as well be a wildebeest in the Serengeti,” he says.

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This entertaining wildlife series gives Britain’s animals the chance to flaunt their natural abilities as three experts set them a series of inventive challenges. In tonight’s show, the boys explore the unexplained behaviour of earthworms; smell a badger’s breath and imitate a songbird.

Intrigued by the mystery surrounding the habit of earthworms to come to the surface when it rains, Lloyd, Matt and James try to tune into the worms’ instincts and ‘charm’ them up – without the use of water. With an acre of fertile soil thought to support up to a million worms, the lads set to work on the local bowling green. They try three very different techniques to attract the worms and are soon surrounded by the creatures. Whose method will prove the most effective and what can it tell us about the animal’s behaviour?

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Animals get the chance to flaunt their natural abilities in this entertaining wildlife series. Three experts put their knowledge to inventive use as they devise clever stunts and challenges for Britain’s unsuspecting animals. In tonight’s episode, James and Matt become prey for a peregrine falcon; the team sets an obstacle course for slugs and a horse’s memory is put to the test with a spot-the-difference challenge.

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Animals get the chance to flaunt their natural abilities in this entertaining new wildlife series on Five. Three experts put their knowledge to inventive use as they devise clever stunts and challenges for Britain’s unsuspecting animals. In tonight’s opening episode, the first-ever bee race is staged; a pair of goldfish are trained to play football; the team engages in a spot of squirrel fishing and a fox has its gourmet taste buds tested by some sausages.

Will Work for Nuts presents familiar animals in unfamiliar stunts. Three men, drawn together by a knowledge of wildlife and a twisted sense of fun, use their curiosity to see how they can help animals show off their abilities. Lloyd Buck is an Essex boy and bird trainer; Matt Thompson has spent ten years making wildlife shows for TV and James Cooper is the show’s resident technical expert. All of their stunts are based on natural animal behaviour and are intended to test a few long-held perceptions about these remarkable creatures who share our everyday lives.